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Ben Reilly’s version of Spider-Man has already lived through the kind of disillusionment most superhero stories spend entire trilogies building toward. By the time Spider-Noir begins, the idealism is gone, the city has worn him down, and what remains is a weary private investigator muttering lines like, “With no power, comes no responsibility” – a…
There’s a certain poetic irony in the fact that Delta Goodrem‘s true debut single – “I Don’t Care” – is the one that rarely gets invited into the conversation. Overshadowed by the seismic impact of “Born To Try” and the era-defining success of her debut LP Innocent Eyes, this 2001 release has long been treated…
There’s always a risk when a successful streaming series makes the leap to a feature film that it will feel like an extended episode rather than a cinematic evolution. Fortunately, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War threads that needle with confidence, delivering a slick, character-driven thriller that works both as a continuation for fans and…
Romantic comedies live and die by chemistry, sincerity and the audience’s willingness to believe two people are destined to collide at exactly the right moment. Finding Emily, the charming new feature from director Alicia MacDonald, understands that formula completely. Rather than trying to reinvent the genre, the film leans into what has always made these…
There’s a moment early in Finding Emily where sensitive musician Owen locks eyes with a stranger across a crowded student union, and suddenly the world feels charged with possibility. It’s a feeling director Alicia MacDonald spends the entirety of her warm, witty and deeply heartfelt romantic comedy chasing – that intoxicating blur between adolescence and…
Romantic comedies have always thrived on grand gestures, chance encounters and impossibly perfect timing, but Finding Emily is more interested in the messy uncertainty that exists between those moments. Produced by Working Title Films, the warm and disarmingly sincere new film follows sensitive musician Owen (Spike Fearn), whose attempt to reconnect with a girl he…
Tom Cruise has spent more than four decades sprinting across movie screens, hanging off planes, scaling skyscrapers and redefining what audiences expect from a blockbuster star. Now, moviegoers are getting a glimpse at what may be one of the strangest and most transformative roles of his career – but only if they head to the…
Jing Ai Ng’s Forge slips into the art world through the side door. There are no velvet ropes, champagne-soaked auctions, or globe-trotting thieves in tuxedos here. Instead, the film plants itself in the sticky Miami heat, inside cramped motel rooms and a family-run dim sum restaurant where exhaustion hangs heavier than ambition. What emerges is…
Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey feels like the filmmaker maintaining the exact groove he knows best – fast-talking criminals, swaggering operatives, tangled negotiations, and men who communicate affection through insults, loyalty, and violence. After several years spent bouncing between blockbuster experimentation and franchise filmmaking, Ritchie once again returns to the kind of slick, dialogue-driven crime…
There’s a haunting contradiction at the centre of Life Could Be A Dream. On the surface, Sarah has everything: beauty, privilege, a handsome husband, an elegant home, and the kind of curated life that resembles a glossy magazine spread. But beneath the designer clothes and glass walls sits something far more fragile – a woman…
The housing crisis has become such a relentless part of modern conversation that it’s often reduced to statistics, market forecasts, and political finger-pointing. But in Birthright, writer-director Zoe Pepper turns that anxiety into something far messier, darker, and deeply human. The film follows Cory (Travis Jeffery) and his pregnant wife, Jasmine (Maria Angelico), after they’re…
Birthright is the kind of film that feels painfully recognisable, even as it spirals into increasingly absurd and unsettling territory. Writer-director Zoe Pepper takes the all-too-relatable anxiety of moving back in with your parents as an adult and turns it into a viciously funny social satire about class, entitlement, and the widening emotional divide between…
There’s a grimy authenticity pulsing through Dirty Hands that elevates it beyond the standard one-night crime thriller. Written, directed by, and starring Kevin Interdonato, the film thrives not because of its escalating violence, but because of the emotional wreckage left in its wake. Beneath the bloodshed, bruises, and frantic survival instincts is a surprisingly affecting…
BINGE has unveiled the official trailer for The Five Star Weekend, a glossy new eight-part drama led by and executive produced by Jennifer Garner. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Elin Hilderband, The Five Star Weekend follows Hollis Shaw (Garner), a beloved celebrity chef and author whose carefully curated life begins to unravel after a…
David Lowery’s Mother Mary wants to be an exorcism of pop stardom. Sometimes it feels like a fever dream stitched together from celebrity mythology, couture spectacle, psychological collapse, and gothic horror imagery. Other times, it feels like a film so entranced by its own symbolism that it forgets to give its characters enough humanity to…
Death, grief, loneliness, goblin demons, and a “crusty old” bio-exorcist in black-and-white stripes are probably not the ingredients you’d expect for one of musical theatre’s most unexpectedly heartfelt shows. Yet that strange emotional cocktail is exactly why Beetlejuice the Musical has developed such a fiercely devoted following around the world. Beneath the chaos, the absurdity,…
Off Campus understands exactly what it is selling within the first ten minutes. Beautiful people. Hockey players with tragic backstories and perfect jawlines. College hookups shot like perfume ads. Emotional vulnerability wrapped in towels (and sometimes not) and locker-room lighting. It knows the “girls, gays, and theys” audience it is chasing, and it goes after…
After four successful seasons on Prime Video, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War marks the franchise’s leap from streaming series to full-scale feature-length thriller. Directed by Andrew Bernstein, the film finds Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) reluctantly pulled back into the world of espionage when a covert international mission spirals into a deadly conspiracy involving a…
Delta Goodrem has never really fit into a single lane. Across more than two decades, she has moved seamlessly between chart-topping pop star, songwriter, actress, author, television personality, and entrepreneur, building one of the most enduring careers in Australian entertainment along the way. Now, with a new label partnership, a major international spotlight, and a…
In 2005, when Tammin Sursok released Whatever Will Be, the pop landscape was in a fascinating state of transition. The glossy, hyper-produced dance-pop that had defined the late ’90s was still dominant – championed by figures like fellow soap-turned-pop players Kylie Minogue and Holly Valance – but there was a parallel wave surging forward. Artists…
Endurance stories are often framed around the finish line – the record broken, the impossible conquered. But In Pieces Together reframes that idea entirely. What begins as Blake Johnston’s attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous surf – a gruelling 40-hour effort – quickly reveals itself to be something far more profound….
There’s a moment in In Pieces Together where the scale of what Blake Johnston is attempting stops feeling physical and starts feeling deeply emotional. On paper, surfing continuously for 40 hours to break a world record sounds almost impossible. But beneath the exhaustion, saltwater and spectacle lies something far more personal: a son trying to honour…
Fifteen years on, Bridesmaids doesn’t simply just hold up – it looms. What once arrived as a risky studio gamble now feels like a cultural reset, a film that didn’t merely succeed within its moment but permanently altered the parameters of what mainstream comedy could look like, who it could center, and how honestly it…
The Gold Coast turned into Earthrealm this week as fans, gamers and cosplayers packed out the Official Australian Preview of Mortal Kombat II at Event Cinemas Pacific Fair on Tuesday night, welcoming the stars of the blood-soaked blockbuster back to the place where much of the film was brought to life. The event marked something…
Before she conquered Harvard in pink stilettos, Elle Woods was just trying to survive high school. Prime Video has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Elle, the upcoming prequel series to the beloved Legally Blonde franchise, ahead of Amazon’s annual upfront presentation in New York on May 11th. The series will premiere July 1st on…
Heavy metal has always carried a certain mythology around it, but few bands have embodied that larger-than-life aura quite like Iron Maiden. With their undead mascot Eddie, operatic stage shows, and literary-infused lyrics about war, history and mortality, the British legends have spent five decades building a legacy that stretches far beyond music. Iron Maiden:…
As Earthrealm prepares for its most brutal battle yet in Mortal Kombat II, director Simon McQuoid returns with a sequel determined to go bigger, bloodier and far more ambitious than its predecessor. Bringing the long-awaited tournament to the screen, the film introduces Karl Urban’s swaggering Johnny Cage into a sprawling war against Shao Kahn, while…
In Mortal Kombat II, Earthrealm’s champions return for a bloodier, louder and far more chaotic showdown against the forces of Shao Kahn – this time with Karl Urban’s swaggering Johnny Cage entering the arena. Leaning fully into the outrageous spirit of the iconic video game franchise, the sequel embraces brutal fatalities, self-aware humour and the…
Mortal Kombat II understands exactly what fans wanted more of after the 2021 film: brutal fights, outrageous fatalities, fan-favourite characters, and a stronger sense of the video game’s gleefully excessive identity. While Simon McQuoid’s first film may have been the more technically controlled entry, the sequel is easily the more entertaining one, operating with the…
Set almost entirely within the confines of a luxury penthouse, PH-1 unfolds over one harrowing night as rising politician Payton Burnham watches his carefully constructed public image disintegrate in real time. Held hostage by an unseen force, he’s trapped not just physically, but within a media ecosystem that thrives on speculation, spin, and viral outrage….
